Publikationen

Publications (Peer Reviewed)

2025

Rajarathinam,Y. Wittemeier, L., Gutekunst, K., Hagemann, M., Kopka, J. (2025) Dynamic photosynthetic labeling and carbon-positional mass spectrometry monitor in vivo RUBISCO carbon assimilation rates. Plant Physiology, 197

Nikkanen, L., Vakal, S., Hubáček, M., Santana-Sánchez, A., Konert, G., Wang, Y., M Boehm, M., Gutekunst, K., Salminen, T. A., Allahverdiyeva, Y. (2025) Flavodiiron proteins associate pH-dependently with the thylakoid membrane for ferredoxin-1-powered O2 photoreduction. New Phytologist, doi: 10.111/nph.70114

Lettau, E., Lorent, C., Appel, J., Boehm, M., Cordero, P. R.F., Lauterbach, L. (2025) Insights into electron transfer and bifurcation of the Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 hydrogenase reductase module. BBA – Bioenergetics,1866, 149508

Doelo, S., Sauerwein, J., von Manteuffel, N., …, Link, H., Gutekunst, K., Forchhammer, K. (2025) Metabolite-level regulation of enzymatic activity controls awakening of cyanobacteria from metabolic dormancy. Current Biology, 35, 77-86

Yuan, J., Appel, J., Gutekunst, K., Lai, B., Krömer, J. O. (2025) Molecular dynamics of photosynthetic electron flow in a biophotovoltaic system. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, 23, 100519

2024

Shen, L., Peraglie, C., Podlesainski, D., Stracke, C., Ojha, R. S., Caliebe, F., Kaiser, M., Forchhammer, K., Hagemann, K., Gutekunst, K., Snoep, J. L., Bräsen, C., Siebers, B. (2024) Structure function analysis of ADP-dependent cyanobacterial phosphofructokinase reveals new phylogenetic grouping in the PFK-A family. J. Biol. Chem., 300(11) 107868

Kisgeropoulos, E., Bharadwaj, V. S., Ledinina, A., Lubner, C. E., Mulder, D. W., Smolinski, S. L., Boehm, M., Gutekunst, K., King, P. W., Svedruzic, D. (2024) Structural and biophysical properties of a [4Fe–4S] ferredoxin-like protein from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 with a unique two domain structure. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 251, 112428

Doello, S., Shvarev, D., Theune, M., Sauerwein, J., Klon, A., Keskin,E., Boehm, M., Gutekunst, K., Forchhammer, K. (2024) Structural basis of the allosteric regulation of cyanobacterial glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase by the redox sensor OpcA. PNAS, 121/50

2023

Wang, P., Frank, A., Appel, J., Boehm, M., Strabel, N., Nowaczyk, MM., Schuhmann, W.*, Conzuelo, F.*, Gutekunst, K.* (2023) In Vivo Assembly of Photosystem I-Hydrogenase Chimera for In Vitro PhotoH2 Production. Advanced Energy Materials, https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202203232

2022

Lucius, S., Theune, M., Arrivault, S.,Hildebrandt, S., Mullineaux, C.W., Gutekunst, K., Hagemann, M. (2022) CP12 fine-tunes the Calvin-Benson cycle and carbohydrate metabolism in cyanobacteria. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13

Appel, J.*, Craig, S., Theune, M., Hüren, V., Künzel, S., Forberich, B., Bryan, S., Gutekunst, K.* (2022) Evidence for Electron Transfer from the Bidirectional Hydrogenase to the Photosynthetic Complex I (NDH-1) in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 Microorganisms, 10:8

Redding, K., Appel, J., Boehm, M., Schuhmann, W., Nowaczyk, M.M., Yacoby, I., Gutekunst, K.* (2022) Advances and challenges in photosynthetic hydrogen production. Trends in Biotechnology, 40:11

Heinrich Burgstaller, H., Wang, Y., Caliebe, J., Hüren, V., Appel, J., Boehm, M., Leitzke, S., Theune, M., King, PW., Gutekunst, K.* (2022)Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 requires the bidirectional hydrogenase to metabolize organic carbon and nitrogen under oxic conditions, Frontiers in Microbiology, 13: 896190

Schulze, D., Kohlstedt, M., Becker, J., Cahoreau,E., Peyriga, L., Makowka, A., Hildebrandt, S., Gutekunst, K., Portais, J., Wittmann, C. (2022) GC/MS-based ¹³C metabolic flux analysis resolves the parallel and cyclic photomixotrophic metabolism of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and selected deletion mutants including the Entner-Doudoroff and phosphoketolase pathways. Microbial Cell Factories, 21:69

Wang, Y., Chen, X., Spengler, K., Terberger, K., Boehm, M., Appel, J., Barske, T., Timm, S., Battchikova, N., Hagemann, M. and Gutekunst, K.* (2022) Pyruvate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase and low abundant ferredoxins support aerobic photomixotrophic growth in cyanobacteria. eLife 11: e71339

2021

Lucius, S., Makowka, A., Michl, K., Gutekunst, K., Hagemann, M. (2021) The Entner-Doudoroff pathway contributes to glycogen breakdown during high to low CO2 shifts in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, Frontiers in Plant Science 12: 787943

2020

Theune, M. L., Hildebrandt, S., Steffen-Heins, A., Bilger, W., Gutekunst, K., Appel, J. (2020) In-vivo quantification of electron flow through photosystem I – Cyclic electron transport makes up about 35% in a cyanobacterium Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Bioenergetics 1862: 148353

Appel, J., Hueren, V., Boehm, M., Gutekunst, K.* (2020) Cyanobacterial in vivo solar hydrogen production my means of a photosystem I-hydrogenase (psaD-hoxYH) fusion complex. Nature Energy 5: 458-467

Arzt, J.H., Tokmina-Lukaszewska, M., Mulder, D.W., Lubner, C.E., Gutekunst, K., Appel, J., Bothner, B., Boehm, M., King, P.W. (2020) The structure and reactivity of the HoxEFU complex from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Journal of Biological Chemistry 295: 9445-9454

Makowka, A., Nichelmann, L., Schulze, D., Spengler, K., Wittmann, C., Forchhammer, K., Gutekunst, K.* (2020) Glycolytic shunts replenish the Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle as anaplerotic reactions in Cyanobacteria. Molecular Plant 13: 471-482

2019

Koch, M., Doello, S., Gutekunst, K., Forchhammer, K. (2019): PHB is Produced from Glycogen Turn-over during Nitrogen Starvation in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 20: 1942

2018

Gutekunst, K.* (2018) Hypothesis on the Synchronistic Evolution of Autotrophy and Heterotrophy. Trends in Biochemical Sciences 43: 402-411

Gutekunst, K.*, Schulz, R. (2018) The physiology of the bidirectional NiFe-hydrogenase in cyanobacteria and the role of hydrogen throughout evolution of life. Chapter 4 in Giuseppo Torzillo, Mike Seibert (eds): Microalgal Hydrogen Production: Achievements and Perspectives; Comprehensive Series in Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, DOI 10.1039/9781849737128-00107

Doello, S., Klotz, A., Makowka, A., Gutekunst, K., Forchhammer, K. (2018) A specific glycogen mobilization strategy enables awakening of dormant cyanobacteria from chlorosis. Plant Physiology 177:594-603

Gutekunst, K., Hoffmann, D., Westernströer, U., Schulz, R., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Appel, J. (2018) In-vivo turnover frequency of the cyanobacterial NiFe-hydrogenase during photohydrogen production outperforms in-vitro systems. Scientific Reports8: 6083

2016

de Porcellinis, A.J., Klähn, S., Rosgaard, L., Kirsch, R., Gutekunst, K., Georg, J., Hess, W.R., Sakuragi, Y. (2016) The Non-coding RNA Ncr0700/ PmgR1 is required for photomixotrophic growth and the regulation of glycogen accumulation in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Plant and Cell Physiology 57, 2091-2103

Chen, X., Schreiber, K., Appel, J., Makowka, A., Fähnrich, B., Roettger, M., Hajirezaei, M., Sönnichsen, F., Schönheit, P., Martin, W.F., Gutekunst, K.* (2016) The Entner-Doudoroff pathway is an overlooked glycolytic route in cyanobacteria and plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences113, 5441-5446